Areas of Photography Powerpoint

Areas of photography - Shannon Small from louisereed7

Leading Lines

LEADING LINES

Leading lines is a set of man made marks which acts as a pathway towards a photographic subject that the photographer wants their audience to focus on.

Here are my own examples of the use of leading lines in photography:

This photograph was taken in a college corridor. I attempted to make the railings act as leading lines. This did not work very well as the railing are too short, they do lead to my subject but there are distractions in the background which takes the focus off of my subjects, Kit and Hayley.

This photograph was taken at college, the main object of this photo is the bin located just behind the row of chairs. This shows leading lines as the row of chairs makes the audience follow them towards the bin. This could be improved by making sure that there is no distractions in the background to draw the audiences eyes away from the subject.

This photograph was taken at college, the main object of this photo is the bin located just behind the row of chairs. This shows leading lines as the row of chairs makes the audience follow them towards the bin. This could be improved by making sure that there is no distractions in the background to draw the audiences eyes away from the subject.

This photograph was taken in the college library. Kit is the object of this photograph, the shelves of books either side of him act as leading lines as they make the audience follow them to see the subject. This would have worked better if there were no distractions behind Kit.

 This photograph was taken in Gundymoor Woods, this is a bad example of leading lines as, although there is a pathway which would act as a good example, there is no subject that the pathway leads to.



This image was also taken in Gundymoor Woods. This photograph shows leading lines as there is a pathway which makes the audience follow it to focus on the subject.

Negative Space

       NEGATIVE  SPACE







Negative space is the empty space around the main subject of an image which makes the audience focus on that subject as opposed to the background.

Here are my examples of the use of negative space in photography:


This first photograph is of Hayley Burns. I took this in college on the staircase. I think it works well with the negative space as the wall behind her is white and shows no distractions.

This image of Hayley was again taken on a staircase at college. Again, there is no distracting background, only negative space. You can see her whole body and there is nothing cropped in this image, you can see the lines at the bottom of the wall and i think this works well with the image as it acts as leading lines and directs the audience to look straight at the subject.

This image was taken outside the cafe at college. I have used negative space in this photograph, this is shown as I have chosen a background with nothing eye catching or distracting to take the focus off of my subject Hayley.

This photograph, as you can see, is taken against a brick wall. The repeated pattern of the brick wall acts as a non-distracting background for Hayley who is the main subject of this image.

Jasper James

Jasper James Workshop

For this workshop I was asked to create a piece of work inspired by Jasper James.

Jasper James is famous for creating a silhouette of his photography and making it transparent, then putting his new silhouetted image over the top of a city scape.

I began by picking an image to begin with, I chose this one of me and Hayley:

I firstly opened this image up into photoshop and, using the magnetic lasso tool, traced around our bodies to dispose of the background. I copied and pasted the part of the photo i needed into a new document, photo size 8 by 10, merging the two layers by clicking Layers - Merge Visible. I then, once again, used the magnetic lasso tool to go around the edge of my image and deleted it leaving the document with the silhouetted version of my image. I saved this as a PSD file and then opened my previously saved city scape file into a new document. I then placed my saved silhouette image onto this document by clicking File - Place. I edited the layers fill opacity making it slightly transparent by selecting layer - layer style - blending options and edited the fill opacity. I then cropped my image to change the composition using the crop tool. This created an image similar to that of Jasper James.

These are my final outcomes

Hard and Soft Light

Hard and Soft Light

Soft light is light that has tendencies to 'wrap' around an object, it casts diffused shadows with soft edges.

This is an example of Soft Light

Hard light is a light whose shadow has 'harder' edges with less transition between illumination and shadow.  

This is an example of Hard Light

This is my own example of soft light, you can see this as the shadows being cast around Kit have soft edges and the light appears to 'wrap' around him.

This is my example of hard light,you can see this as the shadows appear much harder and harsher.